Literary usage of Discerning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)"CHAPTER XL OF discerning, AND OTHER OPERATIONS OF THE MIND 1. BOOK n. T ANOTHER
faculty we may take notice of in our minds CHAP. XI. is that of discerning ..."

2.Philosophical Works by John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1854)"OF discerning, AND OTHER OPERATIONS OF THE MIND. 1. No Knowledge without
Discernment.—ANOTHER faculty we may take notice of in our minds, ..."

3.The Philosophical Works of John Locke by John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1854)"CHAPTER XL OF discerning, AND OTHER OPERATIONS OF THE MIND. 1. No Knowledge
without Discernment.—ANOTHER faculty we may take notice of in our minds, ..."

4.Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)"of the college were drawn up in professed harmony with his view», it may be
interred that he recognised, in common with other discerning minds, ..."

5.The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)"He had long shown to discerning eyes, like those of Sir Thomas More, that he
would brook contradiction in nothing. Without being guilty of notable ..."

6.The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)"... and indicates his appreciation by eulogiums as discerning as they are numerous.
But he will not let his admiration have free course. He deems it a duty, ..."